( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.

A more or less typical monocotyledon, the species can be recognized by its shortly branched inflorescence covered with branched hairs ( giving rise to the common name of Lamb's-tail ).

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

Category: Boinae by common name

At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

The last whorl ( known as the body whorl ) is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear, giving rise to the common name " ear shell ".

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants ( Alnus ) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae ).

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of alders.

The present state of the evidence therefore suggests that their engravers and the Basilidians received the mystic name from a common source now unknown.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

This is one of numerous genera with the common name " lily " due to their flower shape and growth habit.

The common name " naked lady " stems from the plant's pattern of flowering when the foliage has died down.

Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.

Douglas-fir is one of the English common names for evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Pseudotsuga () in the family Pinaceae.

Currently, coast Douglas-fir trees or more in height and in diameter are common in old growth stands, and maximum heights of and diameters up to have been documented.

Because of clear-cut logging, almost all the Pacific Northwest forests not strictly set aside for protection are today dominated by Douglas-fir, while the normally dominant climax species, such as Western Hemlock and Western Redcedar are less common.

This process is common in North America ( since the 1950s ), where Douglas-fir products and pole butts of various species are prepared before treatment.

In the region in which it is produced, it is common practice to incise all sawed Douglas-fir or more in thickness before treatment.

Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga ) is a host plant common to many species of the family, particularly of the genus Chionodes which is consequently more diverse in North America than usual for Gelechioidea.

The most common old-growth forest types are mixed conifer Coast Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii var.

The citizens possess nothing ; instead, everything is held in common, from food to houses, from the acquisition of knowledge to the exercise of activities, from honors to amusements, from women to children.

The common name honors the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, who described the species from specimens collected on expeditions to the Pacific during the early 19th century.

Thesis is also used to describe a cumulative project for a bachelor's degree, and is more common at selective colleges and universities, or for those seeking admittance to graduate school or to obtain an honors academic designation.

Among other honors, each of the men had his name given to a county in the new state of Ohio ( 1803 ): Van Wert County, bearing a common alternate spelling of the name, is in the northwest corner of the state.

Its formal name means Pinheiro Multi-Modality Center and honors the Pine tree, which is a common tree in the state.

The psychologist David H. Barlow of Boston University conducted a study that showed three common characteristics of people suffering from chronic anxiety, which he characterized as " a generalized biological vulnerability ," " a generalized psychological vulnerability ," and " a specific psychological vulnerability.

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

Ignored by many in " critical realist " circles, however, is that Kant's immediate impetus for writing his " Critique of Pure Reason " was to address problems raised by David Hume's skeptical empiricism which, in attacking metaphysics, employed reason and logic to argue against the knowability of the world and common notions of causation.

Also, contrary to common belief, David Lindberg writes, " the late medieval scholar rarely experienced the coercive power of the church and would have regarded himself as free ( particularly in the natural sciences ) to follow reason and observation wherever they led ".

A common play would be for David to raise and hope that the button ( the only player who has position on David ) folds.

David Campbell has briefly summarized some of the most arresting qualities of Sappho's poetry: Clarity of language and simplicity of thought are everywhere evident in our fragments ; wit and rhetoric, so common in English love-poetry and not quite absent from Catullus ' love poems, are nowhere to be found.

On the other hand, David C. Douglas had pointed out that " allegations of secret poisoning " were rather common in the primary sources from 11th-century Normandy.

It has however also become common, already since David Hume, and more recently since the writings of Freud, to describe reason as actually being a slave to the passions, or at best an arbiter of conflicting desires, rather than their natural monarch.

According to David Barrett, a Masonic researcher, the Eye seems to have been used only sporadically by the Masons in those decades, and was not adopted as a common Masonic symbol until 1797, several years after the Great Seal of the United States had already been designed.

When King David conquered Edom, which up to then had been a common border of Edom and Midian, he took over Eilat, the border city shared by them as well.

The term " your master's wives " would actually imply that David inherited Saul's harems, as was common among the kings of ancient time.

In the Renaissance, some writers thought that Flora had been a human prostitute who was turned into a goddess, possibly because of the licentiousness of the Ludi Florales or because, according to David Lupher, Flora was a common name for prostitutes in ancient Rome.

* David ( name ), a common given name and surname

But, as David Fanning writes, it also left him " with a highly personal, common man's point of view on those subjects ".

" The town is also not named for Henry David Thoreau, the transcendentalist author, though this is a common misconception.

Following their lead, the Scottish philosopher David Hume used Ogilby's work to illustrate the idea that common sense frequently appeals to a " standard of taste " in aesthetic matters: ' Whoever would assert an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and Milton, or Bunyan and Addison, would be thought to defend no less an extravagance, than if he had maintained a mole-hill to be as high as Teneriffe, or a pond as extensive as the ocean.

Overall, neo-Marxist accounts of the information society have in common that they stress that knowledge, information technologies, and computer networks have played a role in the restructuration and globalization of capitalism and the emergence of a flexible regime of accumulation ( David Harvey 1989 ).

An example of Tewksbury's use of cross-talk is the fourth episode, " Countdown ," written by David Duncan, which chronicles the Douglas family's attempts to wake up, prepare for the day, have breakfast and get out of the house by a common, agreed-upon time, all carefully synchronized to a televised rocket launch countdown – to comical and often ironic effect.

The application of " common sense " to the problem of substance supplied a more satisfactory analytic for him than the scepticism of David Hume which reached him through a study of Kant.

The film was written by David Mamet, and despite the unusual setting it touches upon many themes common to Mamet's other works including, the bonding of strong male characters, tough posturings and playful surprises.